Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 2 | But I 've never been this close before … ’ |
| 3 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 4 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 5 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 6 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 7 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 8 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky . |
| 10 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 11 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |
| 12 | We 'll take any signals from the UK Government but there have n't been any so far |
| 13 | But there have not been many games with such drama as we saw here today . |
| 14 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |
| 15 | Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain . |
| 16 | OK , so the Prince and Princess of Wales may have separated , house prices might have plummeted and Luton Town have been relegated — but there have still been some fantastic technological and social advances in the past 12 months . |
| 17 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
| 18 | Well there 's certainly been one element of the the input to the preparation of the structure plan , but there has also been some independent view on the the capacity and the the environmental problems that individual districts across North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire have in their ability to accommodate development , and on the pressure and the problems that those pressures of development will have on those individual districts , bearing in mind the environmental constraints identified both in National and in the Secretary of State 's previous approval of the structure plan . |
| 19 | But there has n't been much call |
| 20 | But there has already been some progress in this direction . |
| 21 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 22 | Osnafeld is a British subject , a financier of sorts who has sailed very close to the wind on a number of occasions , but there has never been enough evidence to proceed against him . |
| 23 | Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me . |
| 24 | But there 's never been much interest around here . |
| 25 | The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now . |
| 26 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 27 | , I was going to get you trimmed this week , but it has n't been any warm weather has it , you would n't want your coat off , no . |
| 28 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 29 | But it 's not been all good news , as Chris Harbod of the R S P B has been explaining . |
| 30 | But it 's always been that way . |